Haydn Shaughnessy
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United Kingdom
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Four frameworks for understanding industry change
True disruption doesn’t mean merely competing. It means changing the structure of markets, the participants within them, and the balance of power. → Read More
Apple-IBM Alliance Is Already Threatened By Start-ups
Apple's partnership with IBM has sent IBM into the kind of fantasy world in needs to avoid, dreams of dominance. In healthcare the partnership is already threatened by start-ups. → Read More
The Revolution Hidden In The Apple Health Kit
Apple is about to change the relationship between brands, data and customers. That's the secret sauce in its new Health Kit offering, according to several observers of data and security. Greg Lloyd over at Traction Software, the collaborative work platform, puts it like this: "Google, Yahoo and others gather correlate, [...] → Read More
In Healthcare, Apple Will Struggle To Match Huge Samsung Ambitions
While Apple earned a lot of kudos for its announcement of Health Kit last week, and will bring the power of its brand to the health sector, its main rival Samsung has many more irons in the fire and looks well placed. Who will win in health? → Read More
Capitalist's Dilemma Ignores Unsung Heroes Of Enterprise Innovation
There's a strong claim in June's Harvard Business Review from Clayton Christensen and Derek Van Bever: companies are not investing in the kinds of market-creating innovations that lead to substantial new wealth creation, and jobs, because short term gains, produced with dubious metrics, satisfy the markets more easily. Apple's adaptation of [...] → Read More
Apple And Google Head To Functional Fashion
The technology market continues to recompose itself in front of our eyes. Apple picks up music-device fashion brand Beats, Google signs up a new leader for its Google Glass launch plucked from a string of marketing tasks at the intersection of technology and fashion (but with more fashion than tech). As [...] → Read More
On Galaxy S5 Launch, Smartphones Have Become The Model For Innovation Everywhere
In 125 countries today you can go out and buy a new Galaxy S5. One more Samsung product hits the road. If you're an observer of the smartphone industry then you've witnessed business at hyper-speed, while sitting in the front row. Apple growing its developer ecosystem to the hundreds of [...] → Read More
Apple v Samsung Case Highlights The New Innovator's Dilemma
Apple is determined to drive home a point in its battle with Samsung, a point about its superior hardware innovation. But maybe the day of the device as the symbol of Apple's brand is over. Is this a symbolic struggle with less and less relevance to each company's business? → Read More
Samsung Galaxy S5, Best Display Ever
The Samsung Galaxy S5 won unexpected plaudits this week. Thought there was no real technological innovation in there? Seems like Samsung has been hiding it away. → Read More
Google And Facebook Hedge Against The Data Backlash
It's fascinating to see Facebook's rapid diversification, first into fee-based services, via WhatsApp, and now into virtual reality. Google too is establishing the new American conglomerate, spread across smartphones, medicine, finance, fiber and more. Two companies highly dependent on advertising and data, hedging their bets. The reason, surely, is that smartphones [...] → Read More
The Software-defined Enterprise: Building Your Business Around Digital Services — Gigaom Research
Every business develops software, but relatively few embrace it as a competitive currency. For most enterprises, software development is a necessity, but for others, it’s a competitive differentiator. Tesla’s software has fundamentally changed the way we control an automobile and placed a 10 year-old startup at […] → Read More
Google, Android Step Up In Wearables (On The Way To Robotics)
Google is showing itself once again to be a master of modern business strategy. Today the company announced that its Android operating system has been adapted for wearable computing, starting with watches, and with a sizable contingent of key partners attached to the project. One of those is Samsung. Interesting too [...] → Read More
Samsung Enriches Galaxy Smartphones With Milk Music
Samsung has launched a competitor to Apple iTunes Radio, itself a service that quickly captured market share in digital music with 11 million unique visitors in its first three days, last Fall. The Samsung service is called Milk Music and is free to end-users as well as ad free. It [...] → Read More
Google Drags Smartphones Into The Really Modern Age
The future of all hardware is modular and ecosystem driven. The smartphone industry is a hold-out but maybe not for much longer. → Read More
Galaxy S5 Majors On Fitness But Samsung Is Taking A Chance
So Samsung has launched the Galaxy S5 and played safe, claiming consumers don't want innovative tech for its own sake. The S5 is more like an Apple interim upgrade, waiting on the big changes ahead. Samsung's strategy still looks risky. It has some interesting features. PayPal integration with the finger print scanner [...] → Read More
Samsung Galaxy S5 Comes Early, And With A Hint Of Desperation
Samsung has announced a preview of the Galaxy S5 on February 24th at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. Sort of. Invites have gone out to the press for what Samsung is describing as Unpacked, Episode 1 with a large 5 emblazoned on the invite (twice). All a big tease. Might [...] → Read More
Super Bowl 2014 Will Also Stir Up The Lifestyle Computing Revolution
The SuperBowl is a small but important experiment. What will the future stadium experience feel and look like, Google is there with a few new ideas. → Read More
Apple, Move Into Phablets Or Lose Out To Windows
Having created the tablet market with the iPad, Apple has been woefully slow into Phablets. As yet it does not have a large screen smartphone (a plus 5.6 inch display). But unless Apple acts quickly the Phablet market will shape up into a two horse race, without iOS. According to a [...] → Read More
Will The NSA Hack Wreck Apple Hopes In China?
Estimates of Apple's potential gains in the China market following its deal with China mobile vary widely but is everyone overlooking the potential downside from the NSA Apple hack? → Read More
Dead and Buried? Here's What's Really Happening With Facebook
Over the weekend Facebook was declared dead and buried among teens but something far more interesting is going on with the site, even as its mojo is weakening among mobile-first teenagers. → Read More